AuthorTopic: THE BEATLES AND TONY SHERIDAN (Read 29296 times)

i was watching this dvd and see that alan williams don't think too highly of paully....also its great to see tony relish in relating his veiws on the songs and the era...he was the biggest thing over there in germany at the time too but peter eckhorn was no colonel parker...because tony rocked and rolled better than a boatload of them....

i guess he stayed in germany after the beatles left nd he has steadily recorded from then till even now...he would make a great all starr...as would roy young....so many people rock tho....i guess you gotta live the life to love it....he recently got married...to a woman named anna...boy would john be proud...

I've sent Tony the package with the dvd with this two footages. All I asked in return was an autographed 8x10 glossy picture -an idea from pc31-. Oh, and of course, I invited him to join this forums, if he ever considered joining a forum at all.

The act was a phenomena without equal at the time. The Beatles drew 52,000 to Melbourne's Festival Hall, The Aztecs drew 63,000 to the Myer Music Bowl. They toured to sold-out houses in every town and collected an armfull of gold records. Screaming Lord Sutch and Tony Sheridan chose them to support their downunder tours. Overseas tours were in the offering, and Ed Sullivan wanted them on his show in New York. http://home.comcast.net/~thorpie/happen.html

he 'Blue Caps' are heading for Chippenham! Yes in October, three members of Gene Vincent's 1957 Blue Caps - Tommy Facenda, Dickie Harrell and Johnny Meeks, will headline the 5th Eddie Cochran Festival in an exclusive UK concert on Saturday, October 2nd at the Olympiad Leisure Centre Chippenham. Legendary guitarist Albert Lee will be joining them filling in for Paul Peake.

The theme of this year's festivale will be to pay tribute to both Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, very close friends, who had toured together all over the world in the late 50's. It was in 1960, when Eddie and Gene were touring the UK together, that the fateful accident occurred at Rowden hill on April 17th.

Appearing with The Blue Caps will be guest artist Bobby Cochran, who will be here for his 3rd festival backed by three of the UK's top recording and session musicians, and special guest Marco Di Maggio, who is flying in direct from Florence Italy with the Di Maggio Brothers for an exclusive performance. Brian Hodgson, former member of Matchbox and currently with Albert Lee's band Hogans Heroes, will join the Blue Caps on stage as Guest Bass Guitarist.

Other artists include Tony Sheridan Jr., The Moonshine Boys, The Wanderers, Rhythmbound, Holly Dayz, The Sugar Bullets and top DJ Wildcat Pete.

Mike Berry will return to the festival to headline the Friday night gig with his band The Outlaws, supported by the fantastic Dee and her Heartbeats, plus Chippenham DJ Richard Marsh (Fans of TV's 'Are You Being Served' may remember Mike Berry as 'Mr. Spooner' and as 'Mr. Peters' in 'Worel Gummidge').

Mike is much in demand on the Rock-n-Roll circuit and is a regular performer at the annual Buddy Holly Birthday tribute organized by (Sir) Paul McCartney. At last year's festival, Mike did a fantastic job when asked to join The Crickets for the show due to Sonny Curtis being unable to travel to Chippenham.